Big Bend Construction Expected To Benefits Ag Students, Community

If you’ve driven on the Big Bend Community College Campus in Moses Lake recently, you’ve noticed a lot of construction.  The school is building a new 75,000 square foot Work Force Education Center, replacing the current center housed in former military housing.  Landra Kosa with BBCC said the new Education Center is great news for the Ag industry.

"We are looking at adding an agricultural mechanics program and then we’ll also have a plant and soil science lab in there as well.”

Koza added the new Work Force Education Center is just the latest in a long list of ways BBCC is trying to teach the next, or current, generation of farmers.

“We operate most classes four-days a week, so you always get a three day weekend, which is pretty awesome.  And this is the Basin, we grow everything.  And we have such a wonderful industry connection and that’s just something we’re really embracing as a department is getting students on field trips, and having industry leaders come in a do the classes.”

The Work Force Education Center is scheduled to open Fall 2019.

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